From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Middles—Introduction

[a] Centered textile    RF
"Middles?" I hear you cry..."Isn't it enough to torment us with a seemingly endless stream of beginnings and endings?"

I am not sure where to start, but let's begin with the...middle. This is only the third of five categories in a cluster of posts that examine where things start, stop, and continue. You haven't even begun to hear (yet) about precursors and the aftermath. You didn't think I would forget Star Wars, did you?

But back to the middle. What does that even mean? Middles? Isn't that everything stuffed between the beginning and the ending?

[b] Pimento   RF
Exactly.

From quiche fillings to the long plots of nineteenth century novels—and state capitals and raisins in bread—we will explore the concept of the middle, and we will not cease (that would be an ending) until we have covered middle ages, fingers, class, schools, names, and siblings, to name just a few. We'll study knees and pimentos and textiles before moving on to highway center lines, fifty-yard lines, center court, and the pitcher's mound. And halftime and seventh-inning stretches (trust me). And spring break.
[c] Centered    RF

Middles are so broad, so vague, and so undefined that our pursuit will be absolutely impossible...and exhilarating. But enough introduction. This is about middles. Let's get sta..., er, middled.  Let's dive into the morass.

Thursday
Middles (1)—North Dakota
Trust me.

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